NYSE exec joining Chicago Board of Trade

SteveGelsi

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- NYSE Group Inc.
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said Friday that Kevin J.P. O'Hara, 44, has submitted his resignation as executive vice president and co-general counsel, effective April 24. He is leaving to join the Chicago Board of Trade
BOT, +6.67%
as chief administrative officer and chief strategy officer. Jerry Putnam, president and co-COO of NYSE Group, said O'Hara, "was a major force behind the success of Archipelago and the completion of the merger" with the NYSE. No successor was named.

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